People on the #left: Don’t be fooled by right-wing claims that #unions & #strikes are ”anti-market”. On the contrary, they exist precisely because big business is anti-market.
In a #market#economy, everyone sets their price. A market that offers better working conditions for skilled workers, moves workers where they are happier.
But in a #monopoly, there is no option. For a worker bound to a location (due to family etc), the local factory is a de-facto monopoly.
❝Today, thanks to Android and ChromeOS, Linux is an important end-user operating system. But, before Linux, there were important Unix desktops, although most of them never made it. …❞
1/ Many of the new #publisher lobbying statements use the standard rhetoric that government #OpenAccess policies interfere with the #market. Many go a step further and assert that the market is working well.
12/ "In formulating their objections, [#publishers] position themselves as champions of the free #market, not as beneficiaries of its many distortions and modifications."